28 August 2013

"Every day, a baby is born. Every day, someone
dies. Every single day. And we capture everything in between. You think
of this thing called life and how it’s preserved. It’s preserved
through vision, through photographs.” — John H. White

Brisbane, the third largest city in Australia after Sydney and
Melbourne with about 3 million people, is named after the river that
runs through it and seemed to be modeled after London. Lovely city...

14 August 2013

“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share
my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”
― Steve Irwin Just back from an incredible week documenting conservation efforts and awareness at the Australia Zoo, located
outside of Brisbane, Australia, in the Glasshouse Mountains. See below:

From
hugging koalas to lounging with kangaroos, feeding elephants to
scrubbing tortoises, the students learned what it takes to be a
zookeeper and how much work wildlife conservation, education, and
initiatives take. The zoo is known for being very interactive so that
visitors get to know the animals and that in turn furthers the interest
and care for them. This is exactly the sort of
thing I love to shoot and why I do what I do- to put a face on issues I
love that hopefully brings about awareness, change, interest or at least
a laugh, be a storyteller of topics that matter, and experience every type of job out there!
Here is a wombat, a very soft marsupial